Anita McCormick Blaine Correspondence and Papers, 1828-1958

Container Title
Subseries: J
Box   327
J&J Refrigerator Company, 1938 December-1951 October
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Bills and invoices for repairs and service.

Box   327
Jackh, Ernst, 1926-1930
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Mimeographed copy of speech before Illinois League of Nations group by German professor, dealing primarily with Weimar Germany's entrance into the League. Two other notes bearing on Germany and world organization.

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Jackman, C.F., 1901 August
Note

Location: Methuen, Massachusetts.

A letter (with enclosed self-photograph) from a man desiring to interest Mrs. Blaine in a plan to build a bridge across the Atlantic Ocean.

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Jackman, Wilbur Samuel, 1896-1907
Physical Description: 4 folders 
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Considerable correspondence in this collection from former Dean of University of Chicago School of Education, later principal of University's Elementary School. Letters and memoranda bear on progressive philosophy of education, salaries, teachers' unionization, organization and finances of School of Education, comment on “high school fraternities and sororities,” and mimeograph copy of proceedings at 1904 dedication of Emmons Blaine Hall.

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Jackman, Wilbur Samuel, Mrs. (Ellen R.), 1907-1908
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

A few personal notes.

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Jacks, Lawrence P., 1932 June
Note

Location: Oxford, England.

Letter of thanks expresses admiration for American recreation activities.

See also: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1924 May 19-31.

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Jackson, A.L., 1916 January-1918 October
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Dinner invitation; letter of sympathy on Emmon Jr.'s death.

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Jackson, Andrew J., 1925 March-April
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Note and phone memos; Mr. Jackson desired loan for wife's operation.

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Jackson, Charles, 1949 May
Note

Location: New York City, New York.

Letter describes Jackson's offer to Mrs. Blaine to assume post of publisher of forthcoming visual arts magazine.

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Jackson Coach Horse Company, 1903
Note

Location: Jackson, Michigan.

Letters and bill relative to purchase of horse.

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Jackson and Company Inc., 1923 October
Note

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Note and bill from clothing firm.

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Jackson, David H.
Note: See also: Progressive Lawyers Club, 1937 January 16.
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Jackson, Elizabeth Stone, 1921-1924
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois?

Personal notes and letters.

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Jackson, Helen, 1906 January
Note

Location: Mt. Vernon, Illinois.

Request financial help.

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Jackson, Henry E., 1924 March-June
Note

Location: New York City, New York.

Letters and pamphlet requesting continuation of Mrs. Blaine's interest in New York City's “New Town Meeting Movement,” a non-partisan civic group.

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Jackson, Howard B., 1920 November
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Request subscription to relief campaign for hungry European children; enclosed is statement by Herbert Hoover and Chicago subscribers' list.

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Jackson, J.E., 1907 January
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Request interview on educational charity matter.

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Jackson, J.H., 1880 September
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois?

A medical prescription.

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Jackson, Leroy F., 1923 March-1931 October
Note

Location: Burnsville and Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Mostly letters from head of Carolina New College, a progressive school heavily supported by Mrs. Blaine. Many letters deal with financial difficulties which ultimately ended the school's existence. Some illustrated folders enclosed.

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Jackson, Lizzie, 1904 December
Note

Location: Cimarron, New Mexico.

A short note.

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Jackson, Maude, 1939 July
Note

Location: Oslo, Norway.

Thank you note.

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Jackson Memorial Hospital, 1925 January
Note

Location: Lexington, Virginia.

Request financial aid to hospital supported by Daughters of the Confederacy.

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Jackson, Minerva, 1923 January
Note

Location: Prentiss, Mississippi.

Letter requesting financial aid from colored girl enrolled at Prentiss Normal and Industrial Institute; enclose list of school supporters.

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Jackson Park Livery and Boarding Stables, 1904-1905
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Receipted bills for services.

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Jackson, Ralph H., 1940 December-1941 January
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letters requesting interview for real estate transaction.

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Jackson, Sidney K., 1945 July
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Transcript of proceedings in civil suit regarding deposition of property trust of recently deceased Virginia McCormick.

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Jackson, S.S., 1892 June
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Personal note.

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Jackson, William B.C., 1911 February
Note

Location: Orange, New Jersey.

Letter requests that Mrs. Blaine use her influence with Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick so as to induce John D. Rockefeller to support a colored Baptist Church at Sea Bright, New Jersey. Mr. Jackson is pastor of this church.

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Jackson, William H., Company, 1907-1929
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Receipted bills and invoices for hardware goods and services.

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Jackson, W.M., 1903 March-1904 April
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letters concerning Chicago real estate matters.

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Jacob, Lena J., 1940 July-August
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Bills for nursing services; thank you note for gift.

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Jacobs, Aletta
Note: See also: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1924 May 19-31.
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Jacobs, Alfred, 1897 July
Note

Location: Salem, Massachusetts.

Receipted bill for purchase of china.

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Jacobs, Col.
Note: See also: American Agricultural Cadets, 1917 September 7.
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Jacobs, J. Frank, 1901-1902
Note

Location: Burnham, Pennsylvania; Chicago, Illinois.

Two letters, one requests Mrs. Blaine's help in setting up a small business, the other, a request for information on Parker School.

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Jacobs, John, 1939 June
Note

Location: Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

Wedding invitation.

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Jacobs, Joseph M., 1956 October
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letter requesting assistance in collecting Mrs. Blaine's speeches and other items which bear on President Franklin D. Roosevelt for use by Roosevelt University.

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Jacobs, Thornwell, 1894-1941
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois; Morganton, North Carolina.

Most letters in this folder bear on Parker School foundation, particularly financial data; others relate to Southern educational developments, including a McCormick-supported school at Buena Vista, Virginia, and finally, the reestablishment of Oglethorpe University in Atlanta.

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Jacobs, William P., 1895-1915
Note

Location: Clinton, South Carolina.

Thank you notes and letters from President of Thornwell Orphanage. Mrs. Blaine aided this Presbyterian-controlled institution.

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Jacobs, William States, 1909-1936
Note

Location: Houston, Texas.

Christmas greeting and telegram regretting death of Mrs. Blaine's brother.

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Jacobson, Annie, 1926 September
Note

Location: New York City, New York.

Thank you note.

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Jacobson, Augustus, 1899 February
Note

Location: Lakewood, New Jersey.

Personal note.

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Jacobson, Christine, 1912
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Request continuation of Mrs. Blaine's payment of boarding fees.

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Jacobson, David, 1948 October
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Phone memo; requests Mrs. Blaine's support for a Chicago women's philharmonic.

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Jacobson, M.E., 1892 August
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Receipted bill for ladies' underwear.

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Jacoby, Neil H.
Note: See also: United Nations Association Congress, 1944 January 14-15.
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Jaegar Company Inc., 1922 December-1929 April
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Clothing store bills.

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Jaegar Company Ltd., 1937-1939
Note

Location: London, England.

Receipted bills for clothing purchases.

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Jaegar's, Dr., Sanitary Woolen System Company, 1889 September-1922 February
Note

Location: New York City, New York.

Receipted clothing bills.

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Jahnke, Herman R., 1933
Note

Location: Lake Forest, Illinois.

Florists' bills.

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James, Beatrice Topping, 1927 April
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letter praising Parker School from daughter of faculty member.

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James, Belle Rogers, 1907 April
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letter requests support for concert performance.

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James, Betty, 1943 June
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois?

Thank you note.

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James Brothers, 1921-1950
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Bills, invoices, and other business correspondence from rug-dealer.

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James, Darwin R., Mrs. (Mary Ellen), 1920
Note

Location: Brooklyn, New York.

Request financial help in securing constitutional amendment making Mormon Polygamy a crime. Writer is head of Presbyterian Church Women's Board of Home Missions.

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James, Edward J., 1901 October-1912 June
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letter bearing on Chicago University Extension Division's relation with Parker School; another letter recommends that Mrs. Blaine support Miss L. Maude Reymond of YWCA staff, in organizing at University of Illinois.

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James, Elizabeth Hoyt, 1937 November
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois?

Thank you note.

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James, F. Cyril, 1938 March
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Thank you note.

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James, Harry A., 1939 January
Note

Location: Beverly Hills, California.

Thank you note.

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James, Helen J., 1905-1927
Note

Location: New York City, New York.

Personal notes.

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James, James A., 1925 September
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Phone memo; Chicago professor requests support for new daily newspaper which will counter emphasis on criminal news.

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James, Louise B., 1904 February
Note

Location: Surrey, England.

Personal note.

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James, Marie, 1938-1943
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Notes and receipted bills relating to the care of a Sena Olson.

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James, Rachel R., Mrs., 1907 January
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letter and folder from a mother interested in finding financial help for two girls who specialize in church recitals.

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James, Richard, 1897 August
Note

Location: Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Short business note.

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James, Sydney Vincent, Mrs., 1909 June
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Acknowledgement of invitation.

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James, Walter Belknap, 1906 April-1923 April
Note

Location: New York City, New York.

Short letters, mainly pertain to purchase of boats for Maine vacation; wedding announcement.

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James, William, Jr., Mrs. (Alice R.), 1921-1925
Note

Location: Chocorua, New Hampshire.

Thank you note for support of Shady Hill school; pamphlet and news clipping concerning Royal Free Hospital (London), with note requesting that Mrs. Blaine help in raising money in Chicago for this institution.

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Jamestown College, 1911-1931
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Note

Location: Jamestown, North Dakota.

Letters, illustrated pamphlets, and list of endowments (1916) concerning Presbyterian College. President B.H. Kroeze endeavored continuously to persuade Mrs. Blaine to contribute funds. North Dakota education, agriculture, and politics are often illuminated in these letters.

Box   328
Jamestown Exposition Company Inc., 1906 February-1907 November
Note

Location: Norfolk, Virginia.

Letters, honorary certificates, and posters. Mrs. Blaine made an “honorary adviser” for 1907 Jamestown Exposition; some discussion of whether to raise a statue to Cyrus Sr. at the exposition.

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Jamieson, M.M., Mrs., 1914 January
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letter from Chicago school principal wants Mrs. Blaine's backing for center for tubercular children.

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Jamieson, Anna L., 1903 May
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letter requesting interview.

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James, A.F., 1890-1892
Note

Location: New York City, New York.

Receipted bills for clothing purchases.

Box   328
Jandell, Eula M., 1927-1941
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letter calls attention to dramatic presentation by Chicago children; greeting card.

Box   328
Jane Express Company, 1934 December-1936 August
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

A few letters from distributor of kindling wood.

Box   328-329
Janeway, Margaret McAllister, 1926-1949
Physical Description: 9 folders 
Note

Location: New York City, New York.

Letters, medical reports, receipted and unreceipted bills, and financial statements; writer is practicing physician who supervised medical care and living expenses for relatives or friends of Mrs. Blaine, including Mrs. Amanda Tracy, Mrs. Carolyn Adams, and Mrs. Grace Adams; also included are thank you notes and greeting cards.

Box   329
Janeway, Theodore C., 1913-1917
Note

Location: New York City, New York.

Letters, receipted bills, medical reports, and telegrams; this doctor treated Mrs. Cyrus McCormick and other friends and relatives of Mrs. Blaine; news clipping describes his death in 1917.

Box   329
Janiver, C.A.R., 1915 April
Note

Location: Allahabad, India.

Personal note.

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Janney, Russell, 1917 June-July
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letters urge support and sponsorship for engagement of African American acting troupe in Chicago. Mrs. Blaine promised $500.

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Janvier, G. Victor, Dr., 1918 December
Note

Location: Lansdowne, Pennsylvania.

Letters and requests for bill payments from physician who treated Emmons Blaine Jr. before 1918 death; letter and pamphlet appeal for funds for American Hospital for Diseases of the Stomach (Philadelphia).

Box   329
Japan-American Society of Chicago, 1931 May-1940 January
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Invitations to receptions for Japanese diplomats.

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Japan Exhibit Association, 1904
Note

Location: St. Louis, Missouri.

Illustrated card and map “key” to Japanese exhibit at St. Louis World's Fair; unreceipted bills for purchases at Fair.

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Japanese Relief Fund, 1905 March
Note

Location: New York City, New York.

A few letters appealing for support for suffering Japanese civilians and soldiers in Russo-Japanese war.

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Japanese Young Men's Christian Institute, 1930-1932
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letters, monthly reports, and annual reports. Mrs. Blaine was asked to continue her support of this Chicago organization.

Box   329
Jaques, Alice, 1920 May
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois?

Schoolgirl's letter commenting on a speech by Sir Oliver Lodge.

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Jaques, Anna R., 1920 May
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Another letter commenting on a speech by Sir Oliver Lodge.

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Jaques and Marcus, 1890
Note

Location: New York City, New York.

Receipted bills for jewelry items.

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Jaquis, Floyd, 1929 November
Note

Location: Saranac Lake, New York.

Note requesting payment for services.

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Jacquith, Edwin Kenneth, 1909 June
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Dinner invitation accepted.

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Jardine, Chester R., 1932 June-July
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Interview memos; Mrs. Blaine ordered stationery but printing firm went out of business.

Box   329
Jarecki, Edmund K., 1931 April-1933 May
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letters requesting continued Blaine support of Voters' Non-Partisan Association, particularly during 1933 judicial elections in Cook County; Jarecki is himself a county judge.

See also: 42nd Ward Voters' Association Inc., 1928 April 22.

Box   329
Jarvis Shop, 1914-1917
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letters, illustrated pamphlets, and photographs advertising fine silverware.

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Jarvis, Edward, 1940 August-1951 October
Note

Location: Lake Clear Junction, New York.

Bills for taxi and baggage-handling service.

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Jarvis, Fred E., 1908-1933
Note

Location: Lake Clear Junction, New York.

Bills and business notes for taxi, baggage, and other related services.

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Jarvis, James D., 1903 April-1934 July
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letters, descriptive memos, and phone memos bearing on Chicago real estate business.

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Jarvis, Mr. (song promoter), 1917 September
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Interview memo and music sheet for World War I patriotic song, “The Ocean Must Be Free.” Mrs. Blaine was asked to subsidize some of the expense of publicity.

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Jason, George, 1922 June
Note

Location: Cohasset, Massachusetts.

Receipted bill from gravel company.

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Jastrow, Joseph, 1926 March
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Mimeographed copy of talk by Dr. Jastrow at Parker School on the subject of “The Origins and Evolution of the Moral Code.” Jastrow, a professor of psychology at Wisconsin, discussed the relationship of psychology to morals.

See also:

  • Chicago Association for Child Study and Parent Education, 1928 February 16-18
  • Mid-West Conference on Character Development, 1942 April-May
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Jaycee Glider Patrol, 1942 April-May
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letters, pamphlet, and news clipping relate to effort by JayCee Glider Patrol to secure Mrs. Blaine's support for program of aviation instruction among high school age boys in Chicago area.

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Jaynes, Harrison G., 1923 May
Note

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Short personal note.

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Jays
Note

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Receipted bills for clothing purchases.

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Jeanes, Henry Sulger, Jr., 1952 April
Note

Location: Devon, Pennsylvania.

Wedding announcement.

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Jeffers, Paul E.
Note

Location: Los Angeles, California.

A brief survey of condition of buildings at Riven Rock Estate by a structural engineer.

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Jefferson, Frederick Arthur, 1905 December
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois?

A small medical bill.

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Jefferson Ice Company, 1947-1952
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Receipted bills for purchase of ice.

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Jefferson-Monticello Association of America, 1914 July
Note

Location: New York City, New York.

Mimeographed letter asks for financial contribution to help preserve Monticello home and grave.

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Jefferson, W.S., 1908 August
Note

Location: York Harbor, Maine.

Receipted bill.

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Jeffries, Earl C., 1935 January-March
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Phone memos and letter from director of an organization called the “Co-ordinators.” Object of organization was to prevent use of philanthropic endowments for radical attacks on inheritance and wealth. Cyrus McCormick is alleged to have concurred in the “plan”; Mrs. Blaine merely requested information on the “Co-ordinators.”

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Jeffries, Mr.
Note: See also: Progressive Conference, 1931 March 11-12.
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Jekyll Island Club, 1940-1941
Note

Location: New York City, New York?

Invitations to use club privileges.

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Jelliffe, Sylvia Canfield, 1916 July
Note

Location: Santa Barbara, California.

Personal note.

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Jelliffe, W. Raymond, 1904 October
Note

Location: Elmhurst, New York.

Personal note.

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Jenanyan, H.S., 1903 May
Note

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Letter requesting financial aid from director of institute for Christian philanthropy among destitute Armenian widows and orphans overseas.

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Jenifer, Meredith, 1926 July
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Bill for nursing services.

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Jenkins, B.M. and T., 1907 July
Note

Location: Toronto, Canada.

Receipted furniture bill.

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Jenkins, Elizabeth, 1915 November
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

A long letter proposes a new kind of kindergarten teacher-training incorporating more child nursing techniques; Mrs. Blaine is asked to lend support.

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Jenkins, Frank, 1903 June
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Personal note with enclosed photograph.

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Jenkins, George R., 1901 May
Note

Location: Evanston, Illinois.

Wedding invitation.

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Jenkins and Hardy, 1906 August
Note

Location: Toronto, Canada.

Acknowledgement of payment of boating rent.

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Jenkins, Jennie C., 1907 February
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois?

Acknowledgement of payment for speech-copies.

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Jenkins, Maria, 1928 April
Note

Location: Evanston, Illinois.

Elderly woman requests Blaine aid in finding job.

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Jenkins, Newton, 1924 April
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Republican candidate for U.S. Senator expresses thanks for $1,000 contribution by Mrs. Blaine; Jenkins calls it a contribution to “the progressive cause in the state.”

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Jenkins, Sally Eaton, 1884-1885
Note

Location: Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Personal notes.

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Jenkins, William, 1910 March
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Personal note and photograph.

See also: McCormick Estates.

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Jenkins, William, Mrs., 1924
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Thank you note for flowers for husband's funeral; enclosed short poem written in honor of Mr. Jenkins.

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Jenkins, William Thomas, 1914 June
Note

Location: New York City, New York.

Wedding invitation.

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Jenks, Louis G., 1927 October
Note

Location: San Diego, California.

Short letter asks that Mrs. Blaine read Mr. Jenks' biography of his wife, which he calls a story of a “model” Christian life; he also needs money to finance new printing of same.

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Jenner, Austin, 1937 September
Note

Location: Winnetka, Illinois.

Invitation to private reception.

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Jenness, Richard E., 1916 April
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Missionary student asks for opportunity to see Mrs. Blaine prior to China assignment.

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Jenney, Charles S., Mrs. (Martha M.), 1942 December
Note

Location: Brookline, Massachusetts.

Thank you note for telegram to son in navy.

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Jenney, Mundie and Jensen, 1909-1910
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Memos, builders' blueprints, building certificates, and business letters relate to building alterations at Parker School; Jenney, Mundie and Jensen were architects-in-charge.

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Jenney, Robert M., 1939 September
Note

Location: Brookline, Massachusetts.

Personal note with brief comment on European war.

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Jennings, Asa K., 1925 June-1933 January
Physical Description: 7 folders 
Note

Location: Angora, Turkey.

Considerable correspondence centering around Mr. Jenkins, who was extremely active in organizing American philanthropy in the new republic of Turkey.

Items included are: mimeographed copy of report describing the 1923 Smyrna evacuation (which Jenkins organized); letters and memos on Ojak, the Turkish youth movement; letters and memos describing the Smyrna Welfare Council--a comprehensive Turkish American welfare agency; memos, letters, and news clippings bearing on Turkey-United States diplomatic relations and Turkish economic conditions; letters, memos, incorporation data, and annual reports for the American Friends of Turkey, an organization aiming at continuing the philanthropic work begun by Mr. Jenkins' YMCA. Foreign Committee; news clipping and letter on Turkish-American issues; many other subjects covered by telegrams, letters, etc. Mrs. Blaine, judging by the check receipts and telegram acknowledgements, contributed very heavily to the financial success of Jenkins' projects.

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Jennings, Asa K., Mrs. (Amy W.), 1933 February
Note

Location: New York City, New York.

Two letters concerning husband's life work and sudden death; a pamphlet on Rollins College in Florida.

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Jennings, Asa W., 1930 December-1949 December
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Note

Location: New York City, New York.

Continued correspondence relative to American Friends of Turkey. Letters and memos bear on various educational activities of AFT, such as student exchanges; letters, memos, news clippings and magazine excerpts dealing with celebration of tenth anniversary of founding of Turkish republic; mimeographed reports of AFT yearly activity; letters and photographs of family.

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Jennings, Asa W., Mrs., 1935 April
Note

Location: New York City, New York.

Personal note.

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Jennings, Edward H., 1895
Note

Location: Buffalo, New York.

Receipted bills and business letter concerning antique furniture.

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Jennison, Florence, 1925 May-1951 December
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letters, phone memos, and mimeographed copies of speeches dealing with issues of world peace and world organization in the 1920s and early 1930s. Mrs. Blaine heavy contributor and active member of Illinois branch of League of Nations Association - Florence Nye Jennison was executive secretary. Letters or memos on World Court issue; Louisiana military rule in 1935; Chicago white-collar workers “sitdown strike” of late 1936?; many United Nations matters, including legal aspects of international organization, international aviation control, San Francisco Charter memo, etc.

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Jennison, S. Ellery, 1903 July-1914 March
Note

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Letters, lease copies, receipted bills, and news clipping relative to Mrs. Blaine's purchase of summer home at Kittery Point, Maine.

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Jens, Murray and Company, 1934 March
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Chicago insurance firm offers to insure investments against possible loss due to death of President Roosevelt.

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Jensby, Charles E., 1925 February
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Phone memos; subject of inquiry not given.

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Jensen, A.B., 1927
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Offer to sell property on Lake Geneva.

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Jensen, Arthur, 1947
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Telephone memos requesting financial assistance.

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Jensen, Georg, Inc., 1923, 1945
Note

Location: New York.

Silver dealer. Advertisement, bills.

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Jensen, Henry, 1911
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Livery bills.

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Jensen, Henry, Mrs. (Florence M.), 1938
Note

Location: Evanston, Illinois.

Asks aid in avoiding mortgage foreclosure.

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Jensen, Jens, 1917, 1924
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Seeks help for Danish folk singer Saxtorp Mikkelson.

See also: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1924 May 19-31.

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Jensen, Nels, 1915-1916
Note

Location: Lake Forest, Illinois.

Livery bills.

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Jensen, Stanley, 1948
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Requests a loan.

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Jeppesen, H.P., 1919
Note

Location: Highland Park, Illinois.

Grocer's bills.

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Jepsen, Hans, 1927
Note

Location: Maywood, Illinois.

Florist's bills.

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Jeremy, C., Mrs., 1907
Note: Bills for clothing.
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Jerner, Jerry, 1950
Note

Location: Lake Forest, Illinois.

Bill for garden tractor.

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Jerome, Amelie Hofer, 1938, undated
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Seeks to interest Mrs. Blaine in kindergarten work. Sends material on P.P. Claxton, appointed Commissioner of Education by Taft. Announces book on father, Andreas Franz Hofer.

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Jerome and Company, 1915
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Clothiers' bill, advertisement.

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Jersild, Gerhardt S., 1956
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Regarding Mrs. Blaine's estate, check to United Charities of Chicago.

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Jesness, O.B., 1924
Note: See also: American Farm Economic Association. Report of fifteenth annual meeting, 1924 December 29-30.
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Jessup, Joseph, 1931
Note

Location: Ridgewood, New Jersey.

Copy of letter addressed “Dear Stanley.” Social letter.

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Jessup, Philip C., 1936
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois; New York.

Copy of address to Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, 1936 February 1 on “American Neutrality Policy.” Letter of thanks for stenographic copy of address.

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Jessup, Walter, 1918
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Pharmacist's bills.

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Jetel, Charles E., 1948
Note

Location: Los Angeles, California.

Religious scheme.

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Jevne, H., Company, 1916
Note

Location: Los Angeles, California.

Grocers' bills.

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Jewell, Leah, 1899
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Asks Mrs. Blaine's help in getting vacation with pay from employer.

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Jewell Nursery Company, 1915-1916
Note

Location: Lake City, Minnesota.

Bills for trees, shrubs.

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Jewell, M.S., Mrs. (Minnie), 1948
Note

Location: Puebla, Mexico.

Recalls days when father sold rights to invention, twine knotter, to Cyrus McCormick, subsequent suit.

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Jewett, Anna M., Mrs., 1949
Note

Location: Black River, New York.

Widow requesting money to get teeth repaired.

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Jewett, John N., 1900
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letter regarding membership of Chicago Historical Society.

Box   331
Jewett, John N., Mrs. (Ellen R.), 1900, 1910, 1912
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Thank you notes, inquiries about reaper.

See also: Mrs. Richard T. Ely.

Box   331
Jewett, McCormick, 1892-1895, 1908-1911, 1918, 1928
Note

Location: Traverse City, Michigan; New Haven, Connecticut; Chicago, Illinois.

Greetings, condolences, etc. to Mrs. Blaine 1908-1910, letters from college to Jewett's parents.

See also: Farr, Hollon A.

Box   331
Jewett Mission, 1925
Note

Location: Grandview, Tennessee.

Appeal for aid for mission work.

Box   331
Jewett Repertory Theatre Fund Inc., 1927
Note

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Acknowledges contribution of $100 to theater festival.

See also: Mrs. Jewett.

Box   331
Jewett, Samuel Rountree, 1889, 1909, 1921, 1923
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Announcements of weddings, birth announcement. Notice loan has been repaid.

Box   331-332
Jewett, Samuel Rountree, Mrs. (Lucy McCormick), 1877-1928
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois; Baraboo, Wisconsin; Long Lake, Michigan; Sea Girt, New Jersey; New York City, New York; St. Louis, Missouri; New Orleans; Berlin and Hamburg, Germany; London, England; French Lick, Indiana; Baltimore, Maryland; Macon, Georgia.

The correspondence is concerned mainly with family affairs, visits, personal affairs, mutual friends and acquaintances, greetings, gifts, Mrs. Blaine's financial assistance in illness and especially in the education of the Jewett children, Eleanor, McCormick. Folder of photographs: two large portraits of five women, and two small snapshots, all undated, unmarked.

Box   332
Jewett, Rutger B., 1916
Note

Location: New York.

D. Appleton and Company, concerns job for a cousin of Mrs. Blaine.

Box   332
Jewett Typewriter Company, 1903
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Bills for paper, ribbon, etc.

Box   332
Jewish Consumptive Relief Society, 1911
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Asks cooperation in aiding consumptives in Chicago.

Box   332
Jewish People's Institute, 1925
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Recalls that copy of report presented to Ideal American Commission in spring of 1925 was given to a man who presented himself as an employee of Mrs. Blaine. Asks that copy be returned.

Box   332
Jewish Shelter House, 1933
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Telephone memos asking support for shelter house on West Side.

Box   332
Jewish War Veterans, 1946
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Ask permission to call on Mrs. Blaine regarding pageant planned to portray war.

Box   332
Jewish Women's Conference, 1936
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Telephone memo asking for copies of “the President's Chautauqua speech.”

Box   332
Jewtraw Taxi, 1941
Note

Location: Saranac Lake, New York.

Bills for services.

Box   332
Jimenez, Don, 1948
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Correspondent of Diario of Costa Rica asks interview regarding world government activities of Mrs. Blaine.

Box   332
Jirke, Dr., 1930
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

See also: Chicago Regional White House. Conference regarding child health and protection, 1931 October 30-31.

Box   332
Joerns, Arnold, Mrs. (Estelle), 1935-1939
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letters concerning support by Mrs. Blaine of Illinois. Society for Mental Hygiene, Humphrey-Weidman Dance Recital (March 1937) and the Parker School.

Box   332
Johannes, P.J., 1891-1892
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Dairy's bills.

Box   332
Johannesen, Robert E., 1940-1941, 1943-1945
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Correspondence regarding services rendered Lena Olson. Doctor.

Box   332
Johannesen, Robert E., Mrs. (Grace), 1936
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Condolences.

Box   332
Johannsen, Anton, 1943
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

See also: Chicago United Nations Committee to Win the Peace, 1945 September 11.

Box   332
Johansen, Gunnar, 1931, 1938
Note: Attempt to arrange meeting, invitation to concert at Chicago University.
Box   332
Johanson, Emma, 1931
Note

Location: Alameda?

Copy of musical repertoire addressed to “Dr. Richards.”

Box   332
Johanson, Pauline, 1906
Note

Location: Lake Forest, Illinois.

Thanks Mrs. Blaine for Christmas gift.

Box   332
John, Emilis W., 1904
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Thanks Mrs. Blaine for invitation to John's son to visit Elmhurst.

Box   332
John, Margaret C., 1909
Note: Accepts dinner invitation.
Box   332
John, R.A., 1906
Note

Location: Silver Lake, Wisconsin.

Thanks Mrs. Blaine for favors done for his son.

Box   332
John, Theo R., 1904
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Thanks Mrs. Blaine for Christmas gift.

Box   332
Johns, Clayton, 1896
Note: Thanks Mrs. Blaine for offer “about [her] hours.”
Box   332
Johns, H.W., Manufacturing Company, 1895
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Bill for repairs on house.

Box   332
Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1913-24
Note

Location: Baltimore, Maryland.

Correspondence, bills for services rendered to C.C. McIntire, Kate Graham. Appeals for aid in setting up a “hospital social service,” expanding Department of Clinical Pathology. Invitations.

See also: C.G. Guthrie, Dr. Welch.

Box   332
Johns Hopkins University, 1915-1930
Note

Location: Baltimore, Maryland.

Most of correspondence concerns gift of $20,000 per year 1928-1932 for Fund for Research in Psychiatry made by Mrs. Blaine, Cyrus H. McCormick, and Harold F. McCormick.

Other correspondence contains appeals for other projects, invitations, etc.

See also: Dr. Adolf Meyer, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Phipps.

Box   332
Johns-Manville, H.W., Company, 1914
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Advertisment for refrigerating machine.

Box   332
Johnsen, Max, 1925
Note

Location: Seattle, Washington.

Claims to have been defrauded of his means by the government, asks Mrs. Blaine for aid.

Box   332
Johnson, Ade V., 1907
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Thanks Mrs. Blaine for help in a ticket sale.

See also: Mrs. Smith.

Box   333
Johnson, A.G., 1919-1921
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Reports of dividends, rents, etc., received for Mrs. Blaine. Periodic statements of account.

Box   333
Johnson, Al, Construction Company, 1941
Note

Location: New York.

Information regarding allotment checks from Tage W. Larsson, working on wartime construction project.

Box   333
Johnson, Alice, 1929
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Memo of interview: application for job.

Box   333
Johnson, Alice R., 1915
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Asks Mrs. Blaine to help underwrite concert.

Box   333
Johnson, Alma B., 1892
Note: Bill for treatments.
Box   333
Johnson, Alvin, 1949-1950
Note

Location: New York.

Director, New School for Social Research, accepts invitation. 1950 letter asks aid for refugee from Nazi Germany.

Box   333
Johnson, Amanda, 1904
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Asks for advance copies of the tenement house report, then withdraws request. Letters addressed to Miss McCormick.

Box   333
Johnson, Andrew, 1949-1950
Note: Telephone memos, letter asking aid for “Informat,” Johnson's “information-machine” company.
Box   333
Johnson, Anna A.
Note: Requests a loan.
Box   333
Johnson, Arvid L., 1943
Note

Location: Waukegan, Illinois.

Asks position as caretaker at House-in-the-Woods.

Box   333
Johnson, Bertha G., 1916
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Memo, interview asking aid for Presbyterian work among lepers.

Box   333
Johnson, C.N., 1917-1924
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Dentist's bills.

Box   333
Johnson, C. Ray, 1944
Note: See also: United Nations Association Congress, 1944 January 14-15, Proceedings.
Box   333
Johnson, Catharine Requa, 1938
Note: Accepts dinner invitation.
Box   333
Johnson, Charles, 1919-1921
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Bills for eggs.

Box   333
Johnson, Charles, Mrs., 1916-1921
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Bills for eggs.

Box   333
Johnson, Charles S., 1941
Note

Location: Nashville, Tennessee.

Director, Department of Social Science, Fisk University. Regarding Owentsia session of World Citizens Association in 1941.

Box   333
Johnson, Chester, Electric Company, 1934-1954
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Bills, proposals for work, etc.

Box   333
Johnson, Christian, 1902
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Bill for electrical work.

Box   333
Johnson, David, Mrs. (Constance McCormick), 1934-1942
Note

Location: Santa Barbara, California.

Thank you notes for gifts, invitations, other child's letters.

Box   333
Johnson, E., 1913-1915
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Bills for treatments.

Box   333
Johnson, E.A., 1933
Note

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Doctor bill to Mr. E. Vigeant.

Box   333
Johnson, Edgar Dole, 1902
Note

Location: Oswego, New York.

Wedding invitation.

Box   333
Johnson, Edna, 1897-1998
Note

Location: Brooklyn, New York.

Romer student at Chicago Normal School asks reference.

Box   333
Johnson, Edward A., 1927
Note

Location: Toronto, Canada.

Offer to sell property adjoining McCormick Estate.

Box   333
Johnson, Elizabeth Dale, 1936-1940
Note

Location: Wilmette, Illinois.

Notes accepting invitations, thank you notes.

Box   333
Johnson, Emil, 1940
Note

Location: Lake Forest, Illinois.

Asks job as caretaker.

Box   333
Johnson, Etta, 1950
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Bill for nursing Anna Olofson.

Box   333
Johnson, E.W., 1941
Note

Location: Pasadena, California.

Bill from “physio-therapeauic institute” to Mary V. McCormick.

Box   333
Johnson, E.W., Mrs., 1918-1919
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Bills for services rendered.

Box   333
Johnson and Faulkner, 1889, 1896, 1913
Note

Location: New York.

Furniture dealers. Bill, correspondence regarding order samples.

Box   333
Johnson, F.N., 1910
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Request for contribution to Swedish Mission Church for maintenance of seminary, North Park College.

Box   333
Johnson, Frank Asbury, Mrs. (Annie W.), 1907, 1911
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Chicago Woman's Club. Copy of resolutions to be presented to School Management Committee. Newspaper clipping regarding work of Woman's Club in “the Ghetto,” with request for cooperation.

Box   333
Johnson, Frank Seward, 1892, 1909
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Bill for services to Emmons Blaine estate. Personal note.

Box   333
Johnson, Frank Seward, Mrs. (Elizabeth Ayer), 1910-1913
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letters, announcements, regarding concerts.

Box   333
Johnson, Franklin W., 1900, 1911
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Declines invitation, 1900.

Principal of University of Chicago high school, sends entrance requirements, 1911.

Box   333
Johnson, Frederick A., 1903-1904
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Asks interviews in regard to philanthropy, literature, etc.

Box   333
Johnson, George A., 1903
Note

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Letters regarding post of Chief Sanitary Officer of Chicago.

See also:

  • Fisher, Walter L.
  • Sedgwich
  • Robins, Raymond
  • Addams, Jane
Box   333
Johnson, George S., 1939
Note

Location: San Francisco, California.

Bill for doctor's services to John Lawrence.

Box   333
Johnson, Gus C., 1948
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Inquires about leasing garage on St. Clair St. Photograph of Civilian Defense Ambulance of Chicago.

Box   333
Johnson, H., 1910
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Receipt for waiter's wages.

Box   333-334
Johnson, Harry R., 1932-1935
Note

Location: Los Angeles, California.

Plates, maps, typescript report of geological survey of Quelinda Estate.

Box   334
Johnson, Herman A., Mrs., 1900
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Declines invitation to lecture series.

Box   334
Johnson, Herrick, 1880, 1889-1909
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois; New York; St. Louis, Missouri; Alma, Michigan.

Letters regarding Mrs. Blaine's marriage. Condolences on Mr. Blaine's death. Appeals for church causes. Johnson was, for a time, pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago.

Box   334
Johnson, Hewlett, 1948
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Typescript of proceedings of meeting of the Chicago Council of American-Soviet friendship, 1948 November 27, at the Opera House. Address by Johnson included.

Box   334
Johnson, Hulda, 1923, 1943, 1948
Note

Location: Portland, Oregon; Chicago, Illinois.

Letters, bills for work done for Mrs. Blaine.

Box   334
Johnson, Imogene, Mrs., 1949
Note: See also: Civil Rights Congress of Illinois, 1949 March 11, testimonial banquet for Fr. Clarence Parker. Civil Rights Report, 1949 March 12.
Box   334
Johnson, L.N., Mrs. (Inez Fowler), 1939
Note

Location: Marshalltown, Iowa.

Claims to be a distant relative. Asks Mrs. Blaine to help her in tracing her “line” for DAR.

Box   334
Johnson, James E., 1935-1928
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois; Huntsville, Alabama.

Former employee at Kildere farm in Alabama. Appeals for aid.

Box   334
Johnson, James Nelson, 1924, 1932, 1939
Note

Location: Nashville, Tennessee.

African American leader and Professor of Creative Literature at Fisk University.

Copy of “The Shining Life,” Johnson's tribute to Julius Rosenwald at a memorial service. Copy of memorial tribute to Johnson after his death.

See also: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1924 May 19-31, address on “The Race Problem and Peace.”

Box   334
Johnson, Joe, 1944
Note

Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

Former Kildare employee asks for aid.

Box   334
Johnson, J.J., 1925
Note: Claims a close association with Mrs. Blaine's mother, says she wanted to ensure the welfare of an unnamed young man asks Mrs. Blaine to lend the young man $500,000.
Box   334
Johnson, J. Lindsay, Mrs. (Annie E.)
Note

Location: Atlanta.

Asks for money to aid scheme to educate Southern African American. President of Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs.

Box   334
Johnson, J.S.M., 1926
Note

Location: Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts.

Bill for Cartage.

Box   334
Johnson, Julius J., 1913
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

International Harvester employee asks interview concerning problems of his sister.

Box   334
Johnson, K.S., 1889
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Thanks Mrs. Blaine for gift. Declines invitation to lecture series.

Box   334
Johnson, L., 1907
Note

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Employment service answers Mrs. Blaine's inquiry about cook.

Box   334
Johnson, Line S., 1929
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois; Lake Mills, Wisconsin.

Notes, memos, cable concerning the children, Nancy and John.

Box   334
Johnson, Lorenzo M., 1900, 1903
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinios.

Invitations.

Box   334
Johnson, Lorenzo M., Mrs., 1906
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Wedding invitation.

Box   334
Johnson, Luther A., 1941
Note

Location: Washington.

Texas Congressman. Thanks Mrs. Blaine for letters, telegrams, supporting legislation.

Box   334
Johnson, M.A., 1923
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Receipt for payment for tuning piano.

Box   334
Johnson, Mabel C., 1951
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Bills, correspondence regarding nursing services.

Box   334
Johnson, Margarethe, 1888-1895
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan.

Masseuse. Several notes recalling treatments given Mrs. Blaine. Request for her patronage. Congratulations on marriage. Condolences.

Box   334
Johnson, Maria, 1924
Note

Irish Labor Party.

See also: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1924 May 19-31.

Box   334
Johnson, Marietta, 1919
Note: See also: School of Organic Education, Fairhope, Alabama; American Women's Victory Dinner and Conference, 1919 February 12-13.
Box   334
Johnson, Mary, 1926
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Retired relief worker asks aid for destitute family.

Box   334
Johnson, Matilda, 1946-1955
Note

Location: Batavia, Illinois.

Thank you notes for presents, financial aid.

Box   334
Johnson, Maurice W., 1900
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Expresses interest and appreciation for the Chicago Institute.

Box   334
Johnson, Merrold S., 1951
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letter, telephone memos asking for contribution to memorial for Booker T. Washington.

Box   334
Johnson, Minnie R., 1919
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Thanks Mrs. Blaine for book, check.

Box   334
Johnson, Miss, 1892
Note: Accepts invitation.
Box   334
Johnson, Mrs., 1907
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Asks aid for Amanda Smith Orphan Home.

Box   334
Johnson, N., 1905
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Bill for carpentry.

Box   334
Johnson, Nels J., 1948
Note

Location: Evanston, Illinois.

Bills for tree work on McCormick Estate.

Box   334
Johnson, Oscar, 1931
Note

Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

To Grace Walker: Kildare employee fears losing his job, asks Miss Walker to intercede.

Box   334
Johnson, Paul W., 1946-1957
Note

Location: Denver, Colorado.

Bills for services rendered. Correspondence asking payment.

Box   334
Johnson, Phyllis, 1938
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Bill for nursing services rendered.

Box   334
Johnson, Reginald D., 1932
Note

Location: Los Angeles.

To Dr. Langley Porter regarding plans for McCormick house.

Box   334
Johnson, Robert W., 1907
Note

Location: Baltimore, Maryland.

Wedding invitation.

Box   334
Johnson, Roswell H., 1933-1934
Note

Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Asks Mrs. Blaine to start scholarship program for Chicago and describes program of Allegheny County. Asks for meeting.

Box   334
Johnson, Ruth, 1910, 1925
Note

Location: Evanston, Illinois.

1910: Accepts invitation of the Senior Class.

1925: Thank you note for gift.

Box   334
Johnson, Sara B., Mrs., 1904-1905
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Asks to do Mrs. Blaine's gift shopping. Asks patronage for interior decorating firm.

Box   334
Johnson Service Company, 1928-1941
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Bills for repairs for heating system.

Box   334
Johnson, Steward, Mrs., 1939
Note

Location: Winnetka, Illinois.

Wedding invitation.

Box   334
Johnson Temperature Controlling Company, 1896-1897
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Bill, correspondence regarding heating plant.

Box   334
Johnson, Vivian W., 1945
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Asks Mrs. Blaine's assistance in getting into a home for the aged.

Box   334
Johnson, Walter, 1944
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Department of History, University of Chicago. Sends copy of book, The Battle Against Isolation, asks Mrs. Blaine's comment.

See also: William Allen White, The William Allen White Committee.

Box   334
Johnson, Walter, Mrs., 1949
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

University of Chicago. Telephone memos inviting Mrs. Blaine to tea to discuss a “new radio project.”

Box   334
Johnson, W.P., 1904
Note

Location: London, England.

Declines invitation to the opening of Emmons Blaine Hall, School of Education, enclosing clipping from the London Times on education in the United States.

See also: The McCormick Estates.

Box   334
Johnson, William S., 1903
Note

Location: Boston, Massachussetts.

To Raymond Robins regarding post of Chief Sanitary Inspector of Chicago.

Box   334
Johnson, Y.O., 1911
Note

Location: Kansas City.

Asks Mrs. Blaine to assist him and his wife in going to college.

Box   334
Johnson, Bartlett Shipp, 1904
Note

Location: Baltimore, Maryland.

Wedding invitation.

Box   334
Johnson, Martlett Ship, Mrs. (Caroline B.), 1904, 1936
Note

Location: Baltimore, Maryland.

1904: thank you note for Mrs. Blaine's wedding gift to Johnson daughter.

1936: congratulations on radio talk.

Box   334
Johnston, E.A., 1930
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Regarding panorama and model mower.

See also: Stanley McCormick, McCormick Estates.

Box   334
Johnston, E.D., 1917
Note

Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

See also: American Red Cross.

Box   334
Johnston, Ethel B., 1923-1924, 1943
Note

Location: Toronto, Illinois.

Thank you notes for gifts, check from McCormick estate in 1953.

See also: Agnes Bell.

Box   334
Johnston, Frank B., Mrs. (Nancy Otis), 1937-1939
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Telegram, notes, accepting invitations.

Box   334
Johnston, Howard G., 1921
Note: See also: Federal Council of Churches, report of meeting of 1921 December 16.
Box   334
Johnston, Hugh McBirney, 1900, 1928
Note

1900: accepts invitation to lecture series.

1928: invitation to Mrs. Blaine.

Box   334
Johnston, Hulburd, 1931
Note

Location: Lake Forest.

Wedding invitation.

Box   334
Johnston, James W., 1913
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Thanks Mrs. Blaine for $10 present.

Box   335
Johnston, Joseph F., 1900, 1911
Note

Location: Montgomery, Washington.

Governor of Alabama, Senator from Alabama.

1900: introduces Mrs. R. Morrisette.

1911: to “Dear Chauncey” (copy): defends stand on contested election of Lorrimer to Senate.

Box   335
Johnston, Julia H., 1915
Note

Location: Peoria, Illinois.

Regrets unable to attend party for Mrs. McCormick.

Box   335
Johnston, Lucille M., 1928
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Asks for job.

Box   335
Johnston, Morris Leidy, 1900, 1902, 1931
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Invitations to play tennis, to visit, to wedding.

Box   335
Johnston, Morris Leidy, Mrs. (Grace Douglas), 1903, 1934
Note

1903: thank you note for gift.

1934: attempt to arrange visit to Parker School for friends from Germany.

Box   335
Johnston, Samuel, 1916
Note

Location: Toronto, Canada.

Medical bill for services to Virginia Peeler.

Box   335
Johnston, William Steward, Mrs. (Cora Butterworth Smith), 1940-1941, 1947, 1952
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois; St. Louis, Missouri; Cleveland, Ohio; New York; Holmby Hills, California; Los Angeles, California; Sacramento, California.

Actress. Personal notes, thank you notes, efforts to arrange meetings, greetings, requests for a loan, news of acting career.

Box   335
Johnstone, Douglas K., Mrs. (Emily Virginia Smith), 1913-1915, 1924, 1928-1929, 1941, 1949
Note

Location: London, England; Roanoke, Virginia; Chicago, Illinois.

1913-1915: college education, with which McCormick family helped.

1928-1929: efforts to see Mrs. Blaine, requests for help in educating children.

1941, 1949: greetings, remembrances.

Box   335
Johnstone, F. Bruce, 1924
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Two short notes regarding League of Nations and World Court.

Box   335
Johnstone, William C., Mrs., 1937
Note: See also: National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, twelfth annual conference, 1937 January 26-29.
Box   335
Joiner, Adoniram Judson, Mrs., 1935
Note

Location: Harrison, New York.

Wedding invitation.

Box   335
Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, 1949
Note

Location: New York.

Edward Barsky, national chairman, Spanish Refugee Appeal, attempts to arrange meeting.

Box   335
Joint Committee for Calling a Constitutional Convention, 1945
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Asks Mrs. Blaine's cooperation, financial aid in working for revision of the Illinois constitution.

See also:

  • Bogert, George G., Mrs.
  • Nohelty, Katherine
Box   335
Joint Committee on High-Pressure Water System, 1906
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Asks Mrs. Blaine's help in getting high-pressure water system for Chicago's business district.

Box   335
Joint Emergency Relief Fund of Cook County, 1931
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Telephone memos, letters regarding benefit show for relief fund.

“Estimate of Minimum Relief Requirements for Chicago for Fiscal Year October 1, 1931-September 30, 1932”: typescript, 1931 November 28

Box   335
Jolley, George, 1925
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Orphan, claiming original name was McCormick, asks help in finding parents.

Box   335
Jones, Annie, 1906
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Recommends cook.

Box   335
Jones, Arthur J., 1906, 1911
Note

Location: East Islip, Long Island, New York; New York City, New York.

Inquires about job at Parker School, 1906.

Asks for pictures to use in lectures on use of machinery in industry, 1911.

See also: Wells, E.H.

Box   335
Jones, B.C., 1935
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Tailor solicits patronage.

Box   335
Jones-Baugh Cotton Company, 1914
Note

Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

Notice of purchase from McCormick trustees.

Box   335
Jones, Bob, College, 1929
Note

Location: College Point, Florida.

Thanks Mrs. Blaine for check, asks her to set up student loan fund.

Box   335
Jones Book Store, 1930
Note

Location: Los Angeles, California.

Bill for books.

Box   335
Jones, Caesar, Dickinson, Wilmont and Company, 1905
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Copies of auditor's report and accounts of trustees for Mary V. McCormick, Mrs. Blaine, Emmons Blaine, minor, and suggestions regarding appointment of comptroller for the McCormick estate.

Box   335
Jones, Charles S., 1889
Note

Location: New York.

Informing telegraphically that he has shipped the goods.

Box   335
Jones, Charles T., 1897-1910
Note

Location: New York.

Bills for sale of gloves and other articles to Mrs. Blaine and payment receipts.

Box   335
Jones, Charlotte L., 1889
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Sends good wishes to Mrs. Blaine on her approaching marriage.

Box   335
Jones, Chester Lloyd, 1932
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

A folder containing the address by Mr. Jones before Council on Foreign Relations, on “Outlook for South America.”

Box   335
Jones, Claburn Everett, 1945
Note

Location: Highland Park, Illinois.

Marriage announcement of his daughter.

Box   335
Jones, Clarence B., 1937
Note: Note accepting an invitation from Mrs. Blaine.
Box   335
Jones, Clara M., 1916, 1918
Note

Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota; Santa Barbara, California; France.

Correspondence regarding her visit to Chicago, to the West, and then to France.

Box   335
Jones, Carol 1945
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Thanks Mrs. Blaine for her interest in Parker School.

Box   335
Jones, Cornelia K., 1943
Note

Location: Detroit, Michigan.

Thanks Mrs. Blaine for her hospitality when she and her family visited Chicago.

Box   335
Jones Dairy Farm, 1900-1914
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Various invitations to Mrs. Blaine.

Box   335
Jones, D.R., 1915
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Asks the secretary to make an appointment for him with Mrs. Blaine.

Box   335
Jones, Edward Smyth, 1922
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letter to Mrs. Blaine asking for an interview and sending his book The Sylvan Cabin as a present to her.

Box   335
Jones, Elmer, 1943
Note

Location: Fullerton, California.

Note of thanks for the gift of $500 and says that he never worked for a better employer than her sister.

Box   335
Jones, E.U., 1903
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Bill for the rent of pasture.

Box   335
Jones, Evelyn E., 1912
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Informs the senior class of the Parker School that Miss Laura E. Jones will not arrive in time for the class supper from abroad.

Box   335
Jones, Floyd, 1909-1914
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Cash receipts for his wages as chauffeur of the mother of Mrs. Blaine. Later on, after working for some other person, he requests Mrs. Blaine to appoint him as her chauffeur.

Box   335
Jones, Frank H., 1903, 1922?
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Regrets inability to come to tea and meet Mrs. Blaine. Expresses gratefulness at the sympathy shown by Mrs. Blaine in his bereavement.

Box   335
Jones, Fred, 1943
Note

Location: Pasadena, California.

Expresses thanks on receiving $1200 from Mary Virginia McCormick Pension Fund and says that he enjoyed working for her.

Box   335
Jones, George Roberts, 1946
Note

Location: Highland Park, Illinois.

Wedding announcement of their daughter.

Box   335
Jones, Gilbert L., Mrs., 1943, 1944
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Talks to the secretary on phone and wants to speak to Mrs. Blaine about tickets for a concert.

Box   335
Jones, Grace Russell, 1893
Note

Location: Red Bank, California?

A social letter to her cousin Hattie.

Box   335
Jones, Gwethalyn, 1912-1942
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois; Santa Barbara, California; Lake Forest, Illinois.

Thank you notes, wedding announcement of her sister, pictures of a picnic in which Mrs. Blaine joined, and other social letters.

Box   335
Jones, Harold E., 1924-1946
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Bills for medical services.

Box   335
Jones, Harold O., 1936-1947
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Bills for professional services and other letters concerning treatment of Miss McCormick.

Box   335
Jones, Harry W., 1910
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

A thank you note for a gift sent by Mrs. Blaine.

Box   335
Jones, Jane Lloyd, 1902
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Thanking Mrs. Blaine for her letter and asking her to visit his school at her convenience.

Box   335
Jones, Jesse H., 1924
Note

Location: New York.

Seeks financial help of Mrs. Blaine for the publicity of Mr. Davis who is standing for an election.

Box   335
Jones, J.R., 1909
Note

Location: Highland Park, Illinois.

Marriage announcement of their daughter.

Box   335
Jones, Jenkin Lloyd, 1899-1911
Note

Location: Tower Hill, Wisconsin.

Correspondence regarding the social life in Chicago, the educational system, and Theodore Parker anniversaries.

Box   335
Jones, John F., Mrs. (Marguerite E.), 1949
Note

Location: Benton Harbour, Michigan.

Seeks financial help and charity of Mrs. Blaine.

Box   335
Jones, Katherine, 1892-1900
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Acceptance notes for luncheons. Recommends her friend, Miss Marian G. O'Neil, for appointment as a Physical Instructor.

Box   335
Jones, Laura, 1909
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Notes regretting inability to attend the Senior Class Supper.

Box   335
Jones, Lewis T., 1906
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Seeks loan of $500 and appeals for her help in his “dire distress.”

Box   335
Jones, Lillian F., 1900-1906
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Requests Mrs. Blaine to help her brother in getting his job back with the McCormick Reaper Company. Applies for the post of Head-assistant in the McCormick School.

Box   335
Jones, Llewellyn
Note: See also: Nation, The, Club of Chicago, 1928 May 16. Anniversary Dinner.
Box   335
Jones, Llewellyn?, Mrs.
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Invitation to Mrs. Blaine at the marriage of her daughter.

Box   335
Jones, Louis
Note: See also: Chicago Urban League. Conference on Juvenile Delinquency in the Negro Community.
Box   335
Jones, Martin D., 1941
Note

Location: Oak Park, Illinois.

Bill for professional services ($250).

Box   335
Jones, Mary E., 1907
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Seeks financial aid from Mrs. Blaine regarding the annual reception to the girls of the upper classes in all the high schools of the city.

Box   335
Jones, Mary Wadsworth, 1900
Note

Location: Eureka, Illinois.

She wants Mrs. Blaine to refer her to anyone going abroad who desires a secretary or a companion. She is a student and a teacher.

Box   335
Jones, W.F., 1916
Note

Location: Kewanee, Illinois.

Seeks a loan of $400 as he is in debt due to the illness of his daughter.

Box   335
Jones, Nancy Brown, 1940
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Note thanking Mrs. Blaine for sending roses to her.

Note regretting inability to attend the New Year's Eve dinner party.

Box   336
Jones, Peterson and Newhall Company, 1908-1923
Note

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Bills for the sale of shoes, etc. to Mrs. Blaine.

Box   336
Jones, Raymond, 1909-1912
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Notes accepting the invitations of the senior class of the Parker School.

Box   336
Jones, S.H., 1933
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Talks with Mrs. Blaine's secretary on telephone. Wants to have an interview with Mrs. Blaine and to get financial help in re-building his burnt down church in Fall City, Nebraska.

Box   336
Jones, S.M., 1892
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Regrets his inability to accept an invitation from Mrs. Blaine.

Box   336
Jones, Thomas D., 1901-1913
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Correspondence regarding installation of an organ in the 4th Presbyterian Church.

Box   336
Jones, Thomas D., 1914-1924
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Correspondence regarding installation of an organ in the 4th Presbyterian Church.

Thanking Mrs. Blaine for her subscription of $250 to the entertainment fund of the General Assembly.

Seeking subscription from Mrs. Blaine for the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium.

Thanking Mrs. Blaine for her subscription of $5000 to Children's Memorial Hospital.

Box   336
Jones, Thomas Orton, 1937-1940
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Notes accepting dinner invitations.

Box   336
Jones, Tina, 1928
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Requests Mrs. Blaine to finance the return to Chicago of Miss Nelson who was in her employ as a cook 30 years ago, and is now in a sanitarium in Los Angeles.

Box   336
Jones, Walter Clyde, 1909
Note

Location: Springfield, Illinois.

Letter to Mr. McCormick stating that he would consider his suggestions concerning Senate Bill 311.

Box   336
Jones, Winifred, 1912, 1914
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letter thanking Mrs. Blaine for the fine time he passed with her and for her hospitality.

Letter informing Mrs. Blaine of her approaching marriage.

Box   336
Jonnoh, R.W., 1894
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Bill for painting portrait of Master Emmons Blaine in oil $1200.

Box   336
Jordan, Bessie, 1915
Note

Location: New York, New York.

Thanks Mrs. Blaine for her present.

Box   336
Jordan, Bradford, 1945
Note

Location: Schenectady, New York.

Pamphlet entitled “A Letter to the President,” a newspaper clipping “Hard Going for Leftists” and a covering letter.

Box   336
Jordan, C.H., and Company, 1892, 1939
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Bills for funeral services.

Box   336
Jordan, Constance, 1903
Note

Location: San Francisco, California.

Writes to Mrs. Blaine that his sister Gertrude is ill and cannot plan her summer program.

Box   336
Jordan, Edwin S.
Note: See also: Institute of American Meat Packers, 1926 October 27. 3rd Public Conference on education and industry held jointly with University of Chicago.
Box   336
Jordan, Emily N., 1907
Note

Location: Palo Alto, California.

Letter describing the last days of Gertrude to Mrs. Blaine and thanking her for her sympathy and for the check of $600.

Box   336
Jordan, Gertrude, 1892-1903
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois; Las Vegas, New Mexico; Mentoni, California; Colorado Springs, Colorado.

She thanks Mrs. Blaine for her generous help during her illness and writes to her from various sanitariums and health resorts describing her physical condition.

Box   336
Jordan, Gertrude, 1904-1907
Note

Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado; Essex County, New York; Denver, Colorado; Montclair, Colorado; Santa Clara County, California; Palo Alto, California.

She thanks Mrs. Blaine for her generous help and writes to her from various places about her condition, the illness of her sister, the earthquake in California, her plans to marry Mr. Jansen, and of her improving health. In the last year she suffers from a relapse and is stricken seriously ill.

Box   336
Jordan, Helen R., 1907
Note

Location: Saint Helena Sanitarium, Palo Alto, California.

Helen is the sister of Gertrude and in these letters she describes the last days of Gertrude and the death of Constance, another sister.

Box   336
Jordan, L., 1902
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Telegram to Mrs. Blaine that a house has been taken on Mr. Fetzer's assurance that it would be thoroughly cleaned and well furnished.

Box   336
Jordan, S.M., 1907, 1917
Note

Location: Stewartstown, Pennsylvania; Chicago, Illinois.

A letter stating that the school in Teheran, Persia, confronts the same problem as does the Francis Parker School.

Telephonic record of talk with the secretary asking for an appointment with Mrs. Blaine, and which he fails to get because she is very busy.

Box   336
Jordan, William H., 1941
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

A poetic composition on “The McCormick Tradition.”

Box   336
Josefa, Sister Marie, 1929
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Expresses her thanks for the purchase of embroidery by Mrs. Blaine and for her payment.

Box   336
Joseffer String Quartet, 1933
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Asks for the permission of Mrs. Blaine to add her name to the list of subscribers.

Box   336
Joseph & Burr, 1922
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Memo requesting settlement of a payment.

Box   336
Joseph, H., and Company, 1916, 1917
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Bill for the sale of some dresses to Mrs. Blaine.

Box   336
Joseph, Jesse A., 1922
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letter and talk with secretary, about the matter of Paul Vanbaarn.

Box   336
Joslin, Elliot P., 1929
Note

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Bill for medical services ($250) to Mrs. Alfred Gooding.

Box   336
Jourdan-Gassin, Charles, 1947-1948
Note

Location: Nice, France.

Mr. Jourdan is the director of the Rotary International and writes a letter to Mrs. Blaine in her capacity as the Chairman of the World Citizens Association, enclosing in French language a pamphlet called “The World at the Crossroads.” Two more letters in French.

Box   336
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1909-1915
Note

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Letters about Mrs. Blaine's subscription to the Journal.

Box   336
Journal of Commerce, 1927
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Talk on telephone with the secretary, wants to speak to Mrs. Blaine directly but gets disgruntled on not being able to do so.

Box   336
Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1907-1913
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Bills for subscription.

Box   336
Journal of the Outdoor Life, 1927
Note

Location: New York, New York.

Asking Mrs. Blaine to subscribe to a gift fund for the benefit of tuberculosis patients.

Box   336
Joy, N.G., 1892
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Payment receipt for stitching linens.

Box   336
Joyce, James 1949
Note

Location: London, England.

Talk with secretary. Passing through Chicago and asks for interview with Mrs. Blaine to discuss world government and world citizenship. Has attended all the world conferences and plans to go to Stockholm. Mentions Quincy Wright as reference.

Box   336
Judas, Elizabeth, 1932 January
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Phone and interview memos; student desires assistance in finding employment.

Box   336
Judd, C.F., 1913 October
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Brief business letter.

Box   336
Judd, Charles H., 1910 October-1925 January
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letters and memos bear on Chicago University School of Education, of which Judd was the director. Invitations to meetings, notice of publications, and a February 1915 survey of current research in educational theory and history are included.

See also: Chicago Regional White House Conference, 1931 October 30-31. Regarding child health and protection.

Box   336
Judd, J.R. and Company, 1886 January
Note

Location: New York City, New York.

Short business note.

Box   336
Judd Laundry Machine Company, 1916 July
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Business letter and illustrated folder advertising commercial ironing equipment.

Box   336
Judd, Walter H., 1938 December
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Mimeographed copy of speech by China missionary-physician, Dr. Walter H. Judd, delivered before the Chicago Sunday Forum, title: “Is America Japan's Partner in Aggression?”

Box   336
Judkins, George W., 1926 June
Note

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Letter dealing with lease of summer home at Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts.

Box   336
Jenkins, Walter Clyde, 1945 January
Note

Location: Winnetka, Illinois.

Wedding announcement.

Box   336-337
Judson, Clay, 1923 December-1949 May
Physical Description: 4 folders 
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Includes letters requesting financial contributions to Red Cross and Chicago Council on Foreign Relations (1920s) and memorandum dealing with United World Federalists (1947).

The preponderance of this collection deals with Francis Parker School. Judson was an active trustee and there is much correspondence dealing with the Parker School from 1933-1945. Included are: letters acknowledging Mrs. Blaine's heavy contributions for salaries, pensions, etc.; memos, transcripts of minutes of meetings, and reports of Parker School trustees, parents' committee, and educational council--these bear on budgetary troubles during 1930s and efforts to make the school more self-supporting financially; letters and memos on appointment of new principal in 1938 - Herbert W. Smith; letters and reports on building expansion program of early 1940s; other items concerning both Parker School and personal affairs.

Box   337
Judson, Clay, Mrs. (Sylvia Shaw), 1926 February-1948 December
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letters acknowledging gifts of flowers.

Box   337
Judson Freight Forwarding Company, 1916-1947
Note

Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Business letters and bills for shipment of auto and household goods.

Box   337
Judson, Harry Pratt, 1903-1925
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letters, memos, and reports deal primarily with University of Chicago matters (Harry Pratt Judson, president). Early correspondence centers on relationship of the “Chicago Institute” and the School of Education and includes various legal memoranda; later papers deal with plans for a university medical school supported by Rockefeller Foundation and specializing in preventive medicine and research; March 1924 letter evaluates United States policy toward League of Nations; 1925 letter urges Mrs. Blaine to support Macedonian relief effort.

Box   337
Judson, Harry Pratt, Mrs. (Rebecca A.), 1903-1916
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letters request Mrs. Blaine's patronage of university-sponsored drama and acting troupe.

Box   337
Judson, James M., Mrs. (Clara Ingram), 1948 July-September
Note

Location: Evanston, Illinois.

Writer is author of Cyrus McCormick biography for children, Reaper Man; letters tell Mrs. Blaine of radio dramatization of book's story.

Box   337
Juergens, Paul, 1920
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Schoolboy comments on Sir Oliver Lodge's talk at Parker School.

Box   337
Juilliard School of Music, 1938 September
Note

Location: New York City, New York.

Catalogues describing school sent in response to Mrs. Blaine's request.

Box   337
Julian, Andrew, 1917-1955
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Note

Location: Pasadena, California.

Personal notes and bills from man who rented autos to Mrs. Blaine.

Box   337
Julian, Andrew, Mrs., 1922-1924
Note

Location: Pasadena, California.

A few short letters.

Box   337
Julian, Edith, 1914 November
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letter requests information as to kinship of Gail Hamilton and James G. Blaine.

Box   337
Julian, George, 1922
Note

Location: Pasadena, California.

A few brief letters.

Box   337
Julian, Percy L., Mrs., 1949 February-1950 December
Note

Location: Maywood, Illinois.

Thank you note and Christmas greeting; letter urging Mrs. Blaine to help finance new housing for female students at University of Illinois and thus prevent discrimination against African Americans at that school.

Box   337
Julian and Stone, 1912-1919
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Receipted bills from chauffeurs.

Box   337
Julihn, Eric G. A., 1909
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Receipted bills from bookbinder; also a letter requesting financial aid to return to school in Europe.

Box   337
Junglegym Inc., 1921 November
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Company requests opportunity to install gym equipment at Parker School.

Box   337
Junior Association of Commerce of Chicago, 1940 September-1942 May
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letter requesting attendance at memorial dinner for Chicago Symphony Orchestra; letters urging support of World War II civilian pilot training program in Chicago area.

Box   337
Junior Commonwealth, 1912 June-September
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letters and letter-copies to Mrs. Blaine describe a “spiritualist” organization's view of the social reform movement.

Box   337
Junior League of Chicago, 1913 October-1938 December
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letters and memos; Junior League sponsored charitable benefit performances and desired Mrs. Blaine's support.

Box   337
Junior Republic Movement, 1936 April-1937 March
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letters, folders, and interview memos from Frank Torell, executive director of organization aiming at “American self-government adapted to the school room.” Torell wanted Mrs. Blaine to help finance publications.

Box   337
Junior Safety Association of Illinois
Note: See also: Illinois Safety Association.
Box   337
Junkin, Francis T. A., 1901-1915
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Junkin was an attorney for Atcheson, Topeka and Santa Fe Company. Includes letters and memos regarding railroad transportation as well as the Cyrus McCormick exhibit given to the state of Virginia.

Box   337
Justice for Palestine Committee, 1948 May
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Appeal for financial aid for Jewish defenders of Palestine.

Box   337
Juvenile Improvement Association, 1906 June
Note

Location: Denver, Colorado.

Letter relative to national conference on juvenile improvement held in Chicago.

Box   337
Juvenile Court of Cook County, 1904 February-1917 July
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Postcard and program requesting support of benefit concert for Juvenile Court; handwritten copy of resolutions affecting truant children within Cook County; copy of letter and memo from Judge Ben B. Lindsey of Denver relative to judicial action to protect “stage children” from managerial exploitation; memos concerning salary troubles of Juvenile Court officers.

See also:

  • Hotchkiss, Willard E., Committee
  • Bartelme, Mary M., 1928 October 15
  • Citizens' Anniversary Committee
Box   338
Juvenile Protective Association, 1909-1929
Physical Description: 2 folders 
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Letters, memos, and check receipts relative to requests for annual contributions - Mrs. Blaine regularly subscribed $1,000 per year; copy of Association's reports on Chicago juvenile problems for 1912-1913 which are very comprehensive; letters, memos, and reports concerning one dependent Chicago family (Zenos Boyne) which was subsidized by Mrs. Blaine.

Box   338
Juvenile Protective Association, 1930-1953
Physical Description: 3 folders 
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Material consists mainly of letters requesting and acknowledging Mrs. Blaine's yearly contribution, which was $1,000 in the 1930s but was cut to $500 in the 1940s. A few letters discuss individual cases of need and there are a number of pamphlets on the association's work, including several copies of the association's monthly pamphlet, “Chicago's Children.”

See also:

  • Addams, Jane
  • Binford, Miss Jessie
  • Bowen, Mrs. Joseph T.
  • Dean, Mrs. George R.
  • Deacy, Thomas E.
Box   338
Juvenile Welfare Association, 1942, 1946
Note

Location: Chicago, Illinois.

Telephone memos asking appointments.